Shock or bundle tier.



C. G. FRAVEL.

SHOCK 0R BUNDLE TIER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-l8. m3.

1,230,397. Patented June 19, 1917.

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SHOCK OB BUNDLE TIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19,1917.

Application filed August 18, 1913. Serial No. 785,286.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. FRAvnL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gahanna, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shock or Bundle Tiers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more especially to shock tiers but the device can be used in tying bundles of anything that can be made into bundle form.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap and efficient device of the kind stated in which the tying is effected with a minimum of manipulation on the part of the user.

The invention is embodied in the construction herein shown and described and then pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device showing a cord applied thereto as if around a bundle.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tier member showing a fraction of the cord attached thereto.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the coil end of the tier member.

The tier member proper is formed out of a single piece of wire-preferably stifl spring wireand comprises generally speaking a shank to which the cord is permanently knotted or secured, and a clamping portion into which the free end of the cord is inserted but removably held after being drawn around the shock or bundle to be tied.

In practice the wire is first bent at one end portion to form a U-shaped shank member 5 and then the other end portion of the wire is bent around the short leg of the shank member to form a little more than a coil and a half constituting the coil member, as seen at 6, standing substantially at right angles to the shank member. The end of the short leg of the shank is then bent around the two lapped portions of the coil, as seen at 7 to bind together the coil portions at one side of the coil or clamping member. 8 designates the cord which as before indicated is tied or knotted atone end to the shank portion. The tying together of the coil portions by the end of the Wire at 7 leaves the other coil portion free to lie sprung laterally apart to receive the free end of the cord which is drawn between them. The end 7 of the shank portion also forms a stop to limit the extent to which the cord may be drawn between the coils, the nearer the cord approaches the stop the tighter the clamping effect on the cord. The curved junction of the shank portion with the coil portion forms an ample guiding entrance as seen at 9 for the insertion of the free end of the cord.

The method particularly herein described of forming the structure shown can be varied, the invention residing in the structure rather than the method.

' What I claim is:

A shock or bundle tier made of a single piece of wire bent to form a U-shaped shank member to which one end of the tying cord is secured and a circular cord receiving coil member, the portions of which are lapped on each other, said coil member standing in a plane at right angles to the plane of the shank member, one leg of the U-shaped shank member extending integrally from the rim of the coil member at one side of the axis thereof andthe other leg of said U-shaped shank member bent around the lapped portions of the coil member at the opposite side of the am's thereof and binding said lapped portions of the coil tightly together.

CHARLES G. FRAVEL.

Witnesses:

A. E. BENNn'rr, BENJAMIN FI'NCKEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

